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It seereat world of wilderness lay between the Landing and the upper ri was eating its way up foot by foot through forest and swa, that word passed up and down the water-ways for two thousand miles, a colossal joke, a stupendous bit of drollery, the funniest thing that Pierre and Henri and Jacques had heard in all their lives And when Jacques wanted to i, he would say: "It will happen, , when cow-beasts eat with the moose, and when our bread is found for us in yonder swarazed where e of the great swa

Northward fro, for two thousand , with its two hundred and twenty-seven souls before the railroad cainning of things To it cao into the north; on its flat river front were built the great scohich carried this freight to the end of the earth It was froades set forth upon their long adventures, and it was back to the Landing, perhaps a year or ht as the price of exchange their cargoes of furs

Thus for nearly a century and a half the larger craft, with their great sweeps and their wild-throated crews, had gone DOWN the river toward the Arctic Ocean, and the smaller craft, with their still wilder crews, had co speaks of it, is the Athabasca, with its headwaters away off in the British Columbian ave up their lives to find where the cradle of it lay And it sweeps past the Landing, a slow and ly on its way to the northern sea With it the river brigades set forth For Pierre and Henri and Jacques it is going from one end to the other of the earth The Athabasca ends and is replaced by the Slave, and the Slave empties into Great Slave Lake, and from the narrow tip of that Lake the Mackenzie carries on for more than a thousand miles to the sea